Little Delights

This show will be bite-sized art at bite-sized prices! All artwork will range from $50 - $200, so something for everyone.

About the Artists

Kim Bass:She has lived and worked in California all of her life, and graduated from the University of CA East Bay Campus with a degree in Liberal Arts. She is largely a self taught and experiential artist. She is continually trying to master a complicated process involving resins, oils, acrylics, paper, photography, metals and natural objects that are contained within my art.

Prabin Badhia:I like the gestures, contours, and volume of the human form. Whether the model‘s pose is active or passive, I seek to convey the dynamism and movement of the body. I bring that to action on my canvas - any size, any shape, any gender. Since my college days, I have made more than 100,000 sketches.

Suzane Beaubrun:Suzane Beaubrun is a metal smith and multi-media artist working out of Oakland CA. Her emphasis is in mixing unusual materials, textures and techniques to form jewelry and other art objects.

Sherrod BlanknerSherrod Blankner is a graduate of Yale University where she studied Art with Tom Roma. She focuses on painting architecture, whether in city or rural scenes. Ms. Blankner’s current Southern tableaus are based on photographs by one of her artistic collaborators, Christina Huntington, of Memphis, Tennessee.

Debbie Claussen:Whether it be City Scenes, Ballet Dancers or Animals, Debbie's paintings are about movement and personality. Debbie developed her flawless drawing technique at a young age. Debbie's work is collected internationally, has been featured in Art Show at The Dog Show, American Kennel Club, Colored Pencil Society of America and Artists Magazine.

Bernice Gross:Bernice Gross is known for her vividly-painted scenes of middle-class America in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Her spot-on eye for images that capture awkward, familiar, and intimate family moments has made her a national reputation as an inimitable painter.

Gera Hasse:I have been spending time with a person with dyslexia. That experience has made me see letters and numbers as objects rather than the words we leap to when we see them. In these six pieces I have played with convention and relationships of those objects. It is necessary to move things around in your head to make sense of them. That is a valuable ability. I have used letters that are rigid to show the freedom we can have inside a preordained structure. Other elements in the collage give a sense of the foundations of numbers and letters. Basically I am playing with ideas. Hope you can play too.

Ann Marie Hodrick:She is an artisan inspired by the beauty of the colors and textures that influence our daily lives … the way light is reflected off a cityscape, the colors in a spring garden or the texture of the surf against the sand on a beach.

Maggie Hurley:Lately I’ve been inspired by the sea: I find the ocean to be grounding. It’s a place of elegance, power, and grace amidst constant change. There is something settling about the sea for me, and creating the work for this show has been very meditative. I swim a lot, and growing up, I spent most of my time in the ocean.

Erin McGarry:Growing up on the outskirts of San Antonio, I spent a vast amount of my childhood playing outdoors and camping. This cultivated an early appreciation of the wilderness around me. As I grew older, my simple love for nature was reinforced from travels within and abroad the U.S., many to natural landmarks.

Nuu:My name is Nuch. My passion for form, simplicity, and salient details has continued to grow in me since I was an architecture student and architect. The first time I made a necklace for my aunt, unexpectedly, these dormant enthusiasms blossomed in me again. Since then, for over ten years, designing and crafting jewelry has become my inspiring muse.Website: nuujewelry.com

Cindy Podren: I have always wanted to paint and began dabbling about twenty years ago. In 2002, I suffered the biggest personal loss of my life and took up painting more intensively at that time. I paint mostly in oils, although I use watercolors when travelling. I paint plein air landscapes, and do studio work from my photographs, hoping to convey my feelings about these sites and the beauty of the ordinary. Cindy Podren

My urban collage paintings are inspired by my day to day observations - from street scenes, billboards and posters to often overlooked surfaces, architectural elements and birds. I translate these moments into fragmented images, objects, textures and colors. As I collect and interpret these visual cues, I use them to create a new visual experience. This process for me is purely intuitive and my ultimate form of self expression.

ShawNshawN:For this small exhibition focused on 8x8, I decided to cover Malala Yousafzai. She was blogging for the BBC in Pakistan about living as a girl under Taliban rule and standing up for female right to education. The Taliban tried to assassinate her, but luckily she survived and perseveres in her struggle for her rights and the rights of all women in a patriarchial society dominated by extreme religion.

Valerie Sobel:My work process involves intuition, imagination as well as intellect; serendipity as well as planning and design. I always observe the world around me, consciously noting details and I leave it to my senses to randomly record what they deem worthy of interest. It will trickle down to my consciousness later.

Hallie Strock:Hallie Strock is a graduate of Mills College, in Oakland, CA, with a BA in studio art. Her work, now focused on water-based media and textile arts, hangs in a number of private collections in the United States, and has won significant awards in local and regional juried exhibitions in California. Hallie is a member of the Oakland Art Association.